Detachable button



Jul 8, 1947. G. c. WELTER 2,423,535

DETACHABLE BUTTON Filed May 20, 1944 Inventor G/a 04 512 6254/5; mvo 'h a TEE,

Patented July 8, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DETACHABLE BUTTON Grover Cleveland Welter, Roswell, N. Mex.

Application May 20, 1944, Serial No. 536,626

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a novel and improved detachable button which is expressly, though not necessarily, adapted for use on uniforms such as worn by military personnel, policemen, firemen and the like, and the purpose of the invention is, obviously, to provide a button which is readily applicable and removable, this in a manner to permit the button to be detached when the uniform is laundered or otherwise cleaned, whereby to permit the task to be performed without ruinous results to either the uniform or button.

The invention lends itself admirably well and particularly adaptable to service buttons, particularly those equipped with insignia. Such buttons are removed for cleaning and polishing and the invention permits accomplishment of this in an expedient and reliable manner, thus fulfilling certain desired ends.

Needless to say, I am aware that the broad idea of detachable, separable and removable buttons is not new. I aim to improve upon known types by providing one which is simple, economical and otherwise adapted for the purposes intended, the same being characterized by appreciable features of distinctions and refinements.

Briefly, the preferred embodiment is characterized by a hollow shell embodying an outer or top section and an inner or bottom section, the two sections being telescopically and rigidly fixed together, the bottom section provided with a keyliole slot to accommodate a headed stud for anchoring the button, as a unit, on the uniform, and there being a spring-pressed follower and retention plate mounted within the shell and coacting with the slot and adjacent head on the pin to retain the pin in the slot unless forcibly disconnected therefrom.

Other features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved button.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a central section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the anchoring double-headed stud.

The button is generally made of sheet metal but other materials may, of course, be employed. The shell, as before stated, comprises a main outer or top section 5 of convexed form having a marginal annular inwardly tapering rim portion 6 with a lip 1, these features 6 and 1 cmbracing the bottom section 8, the latter being of cup-shaped form with its flaring marginal wall contacting the tapering annular portion 6. The portions 6 and 'l are swaged or crimped around the cup element 8 to facilitate proper assembling and retention of parts. The part B is provided with a radial keyhole-shaped slot 9, this to accommodate the inner small head It on the double-headed attaching stud II. The larger head l2 at the inner end of the stud is adapted to be permanently secured in any suitable manner to the garment or uniform (not shown), as the case may be. The follower plate 13 is of general disk-like form and is wedged firmly down in place in the cup-like part through the instrumentality of a coiled spring Hi, the latter confined in the shell and resting at one end against the plate and at its opposite end against the crown portion of the section 5. The springpressed follower disc or plate 13 presses the head ill firmly against the inner surface of the disclike portion 8 of the inner cup section, this in a manner to hold the stud ll in place by friction. Although the slot 9 might be sufficiently gauged to afford a tight fit of the shank of the stud in the restricted portion of the keyhole slot, it is the disc 13, spring pressed as at M, which constitutes the essential retaining means for said stud.

It is thought that person skilled in the art to which the invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the invention after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in the shape, size and arrangement of details coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actual practice, if desired.

Having described the claimed as new is:

A quickly detachable and applicable military uniform button of the class described comprising a hollow shell embodying an outer main capping section and a complemental interiorly located and fixedly mounted inner section, said inner section being in the form of a shallow cup having a marginal tapered wall and a complemental disclike wall, the latter provided with a centrally arranged keyhole-slot, the marginal edge portion of said outer section being tapered, conforming to and exteriorly surrounding and inclosing the tapered marginal wall of said cup, and a springpressed stud clamping and retaining disc located invention, what is in said shell and normally lodged and confined in said cup, said disc being of a diameter greater UNITED STATES PATENTS than the slotted disc-like wall of said inner cup Number Name Date section, being spaced slightly from said wall and 1 627 723 Bebry May 10 1927 riding in movable contact with the inner sur- 5 Wade Nov 1896 faces of the tapered marginal wall of said cup and being adapted to press the headed inner end FOREIGN P S of a double headed stud, seated in said slot, Number Country Date against the inner surface of the disc-like wall 537,310 Great Britain July 7, 1941 of i c p; inrthemanner and for. the purposes, 10 340,560 Germany Sept 13, 1921 descnbed- 19,340 Great Britain 1901 GROVER CLEVELAND WELTER- 760,695 France Dec, 14, 1933 REFERENCES CITED The following references are oflrecord in the 15 file of this patent: 

